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Gay marriage and the political psychology of disgust

Disgust reactions against gays are correlated with negative attitudes toward same-sex marriage. That isn’t to say that conservatives are less tolerant of or hardwired to dislike gays. “I think the best way of looking at this is conservatives are wired to be a little more easily disgusted and fearful,” Stewart says. “They are a little bit more wired to defensiveness in their environment.” But Stewart has also found that even liberal minds harbor implicit associations between disgust and the LGBT community.

In a recently published experiment, Stewart and his colleagues demonstrated that the presence of a disgusting odor decreased support of gay marriage. Random samples were sorted into either into an odor group (the researchers added a vomit-like smell to a room) or control groups (no odor). The participants were then asked about their feelings on an array of social and political issues. The results are clear: In the disgust condition “participants exposed to the smell … reported increased subjective disgust and more politically conservative attitudes concerning gay marriage, premarital sex, pornography, and Biblical truth.” The disgusting odor had no impact on opinions on nonsexual political matters, such as tax cuts or immigration.

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But it’s not adaptive when healthy groups of people are reacted to in the exact same way as if they were pathogens.

But suppose those groups of people are, by their acts, pathogens? A pathogen is a disease-causing organism, and we certainly can thank the gay males of our country for the rampant HIV that invaded our blood supply, infected drug abusers, and so on. We can certainly recognize the kind of sexual predator which such people represent.

88% of Catholic priests who sexually abused children abused male children; only 12% abused female children. What that says about gays as predators of children will never appear in the media, because it’s an inconvenient truth to the liberals who currently control this country.

I would say just that fact alone means that my Church’s stance on homosexual activity is a correct stance — we are dealing with a pathological infection. That these priests sinned is obvious — for I doubt a single one of them did not know that what they were doing went against everything Jesus taught. But why such a large number of gay molesters? I doubt science will examine this issue — it’s too explosive and it goes against the agenda of the current leaders of psychology — the same ones that said that pedophilia was curable, and the ones who say that gayness is normal.

In the abstract and politically I support rampant, anonymous recreational anal intercourse – that is to say typical homosexual behavior- as much as the next guy. Practically I find it abhorrent, disgusting and unhygienic.

So, “scientists” are spending exactly how much money to determine why people are disgusted with homosexuality? To prove “homoaversion”?

For example, in the case of gays, how is one man penetrating another man’s anus not disgusting? Please, do explain it for all of us “bigots”.

If we must get all anatomical and biological about it, the anus is the body’s “waste disposal port”, designed to expel, not for intake. Not much different than a guy screwing his sewer pipes. It may turn him on, but it ain’t healthy, it ain’t sane, and it’s disgusting. One of the reasons why even lesbians are turned off by gay sex. I mean, can you even make a case that a vagina and anus are “equivalent”, since apparently the sex acts are now supposed to be? I’d LOVE to hear what women have to say about that one.

Gay men have to pound a butt since the object of their affection lacks the complementary sex organ. Likewise, lesbians need fingers or strap-ons to replace the sex organ they are glaringly missing. Isn’t it obvious that they are lacking?

So people being disgusted by this activity is itself some disorder, but the activity itself isn’t? Are you serious?

Add this to the fact that gays are quick to project onto others their own issues – homosexuality used to be classified as a mental disorder, so, if you are disgusted by said behavior, now YOU must have a disorder, a “homophobia”, a “pathological, irrational fear of gays”.

Take it further, if you are disgusted by the behavior, and “have a problem with it”, then YOU must be a closet case, unlike those who have no problem with the behavior or support it, who must be clearly, indisputably heterosexual.